A New Age of Consensus? Alignment Shattered By New Contract Documents

“Can’t we all just get along?” —Rodney King
These frustrated words issued as a result of riots in L.A. may also have some application to the construction industry. For too long, the industry has been driven by conflict that begins when the owner puts one-sided contract documents out for bid, the contractor sends a subcontract at least, if not more, one-sided to the subcontractor and so forth, all the way down the construction “food chain.”